Photographer from San Diego, CA

Author: Shuwen Lisa Wu

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We found beautiful displays of wildflowers along Henderson Canyon Road near Borrego Springs in Anza Borrego Desert State Park yesterday. After some attempts at close-ups I mostly used the wide angle lens, and had a lot of fun with it.

As is it often the case with the winter storms, they got blocked by the mountains to the west of the desert for the most part – it was windy, but only occasionally a bit of a drizzle would reach the desert floor. It was a beautiful day out there!

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Impressions from a hike at Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve West, which is one of the many preserves that are part of the San Dieguito River Park and its trail system that will include the future Coast-to-Crest trail.

Initially it was partly cloudy, but as we hiked further in the clouds slowly descended down into the landscape – it was quite magical!

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One of our “summer storm” excursions into the back country ultimately led us all the way into Imperial County and Algodones Dunes. We originally only wanted to visit Santa Ysabel and Laguna Mountains, but from there we saw that the desert was overcast too.

While Alex and Toni wandered into the dunes I used the opportunity to include them in my photos for a sense of size and scale. Alex has way more dune photos in his black & white gallery, with more background information why went there in summer. 🙂

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